🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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The_Iconoclast said:
Oh, my book jacket image from over ten years ago? Yeah...I had a nice job and a sense of freedom then. Of course I looked all right. But then things changed. If Bush was as bad as the Democrats say, tell me why I had two managerial positions in shops during his administration, but since Obama came into office and monkeyed with health care and the economy, no one is asking me on board. Not just new businesses, but stores that have been around for decades are folding. Change has killed Main Street in Small Town, USA. And I don't have the patience to deal with big-city mayors like Doomberg and King Willie, even if jobs are better in a larger burg. It'd just be answering to a bigger bully, taking more of my money (they will fine you if you have an unneutered dog in a dog park in Memphis--seriously). I belong in a college environment, but it has to be as much like my alma mater as possible. I need a place I can feel happy and secure to start rebuilding my life.
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Unless Obama personally fired you somehow, connecting him to you being unemployed is spurious at best. Because honestly, the President of The United States has much more important things and people to worry about than you. He has no idea you exist.

Bush didn't know you existed either, so how does him having been in office have anything to do with anything? Again, unless the President is somehow directly responsible for you being employed, a dog could be President and it would still have zero practical impact on your life.
 
Holdek said:
Dude, are you saying you portrayed this guy as a rapist in your comics? What is wrong with you?
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He's publicly explained that he's named his comic "The Belch Dimension" because he loves belching and can hold one in for ages, goes into great detail about his fart fetish, and makes comics about himself and his "friends" as teenage super powered stick figures ranting about politics and silly conspiracy theories, which he thinks is a work of art, and anyone who doesn't think so is a big stupid liberal. I don't think that this fully grown child has any shame.
 
The_Iconoclast said:
If Bush was as bad as the Democrats say, tell me why I had two managerial positions in shops during his administration, but since Obama came into office and monkeyed with health care and the economy, no one is asking me on board....
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I've been reading your blog. It starts in 2005, and ends in 2012. Your life's misery spans different parties being in power.

Your attempts to connect national political events to every one of your very particular problems are not convincing to anyone, even, I think, deep down, yourself.

The_Iconoclast said:
And I don't have the patience to deal with big-city mayors like Doomberg and King Willie, even if jobs are better in a larger burg. It'd just be answering to a bigger bully, taking more of my money (they will fine you if you have an unneutered dog in a dog park in Memphis--seriously).
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Nah, you just think you're too good to be
Iconoclast said:
some wage-slave drone who can be hired or fired on a whim.
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The_Iconoclast said:
I belong in a college environment, but it has to be as much like my alma mater as possible. I need a place I can feel happy and secure to start rebuilding my life.
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You graduated from ASU already, right? Like over 15 years ago? What makes you think you could go live on campus?

Besides, what happened to this, your moment of clarity?:
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So I hereby announce that I am giving up my dream of going back to ASU. It is not something I do lightly. I have thought about it for days. Iam sorry to let it go. It is a dream which has kept me afloat through some rough times--the frequent beatings my brother gave me, or the nights I lay awake crying while he raged and bellowed and punched holes in the walls and hurled my mom's porcelain figurines across the room while having one of his tantrums, or all the times I went hungry because he'd gobbled up all the food in the fridge and stolen my petty cash so I couldn't go out and buy a sandwich at one of the take-out places. And I know soon enough he's going to get out of rehab, and he'll sob a few crocodile tears and swear up and down he's changed, and my family will forgive him--against my better judgement--and let him back in. Just like they always do. And not two weeks later he'll be acting up again, just as he always does. He'll steal, he'll abuse us, he'll rave and throw fits if he can't have his way, he'll generally treat us like filth. And I will have no choice but to sit, and wait, and wait, and wait it out, and endure, until the nightmare ends with him slipping up and going off to jail or rehab or wherever they send him this time to get clean, and I'll enjoy my brief reprieve before this endless cycle comes around and he's back in my life again. And again. And again. Because thanks to the evil Bonnie Thrasher, there is no escape for me from this hell. There is no Peter Pan-Land for me to run to and hide, because I was away too long, and too much time slipped away. Now I am too old for Neverland. I guess I will have to accept I've grown up and forgotten how to fly.
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Face it: you're scared. You're scared you will fail again if you try, like you did at the paper. And that's okay. That's the first step toward getting past that fear.

And then you have to make the effort to move forward. College might have been a cozy environment...but you're not going back there. That's over. It's done. The "perks" are set up to help young adults 18-22 transition into real life. You're 48 38. They will arrest you if you step foot on campus. So you have to find another way. You need a professional mental health person to help you through this.

Trust me, your life will be better if you move out, get away from your brother, start making some scratch, and get some independence. You'll feel more alive. Why spin your wheels for another 15 years, just to be stuck in the same rut, only with even less sympathy than you have now?
 
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The_Iconoclast said:
If Bush was as bad as the Democrats say, tell me why I had two managerial positions in shops during his administration, but since Obama came into office and monkeyed with health care and the economy, no one is asking me on board. Not just new businesses, but stores that have been around for decades are folding. Change has killed Main Street in Small Town, USA. And I don't have the patience to deal with big-city mayors like Doomberg and King Willie, even if jobs are better in a larger burg. It'd just be answering to a bigger bully, taking more of my money (they will fine you if you have an unneutered dog in a dog park in Memphis--seriously). I belong in a college environment, but it has to be as much like my alma mater as possible. I need a place I can feel happy and secure to start rebuilding my life.
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I know it's dark and secluded in Mommy's basement and you have a tenuous connection with reality at best, but there was this little thing called the Great Recession that hit about 2008 and had its roots in things that happened during the Bush administration. Contrary to what you may believe, Obama does not sit in his secret chamber in the White House rubbing his hands together and cackling, "Now how can I make life miserable for a paranoid fart fetishist in Bumfuck, Arkansas?"

And once again, you prove just how much like Chris you really are, whining about all the concessions life needs to make in order for you to do the things normal adults accomplish completely unassisted. No one really cares what you do or do not have the patience for, where you think you belong or the specifications of where you want to live and work. The real world does not work that way and has never worked that way, not even in the halcyon days of the 1990s. Either you adapt to the way the world is or you die.
 
Wait he already graduated? I was under the assumption he dropped out after he was kicked off the school paper. Why in the holy fuck would they let you on campus let alone use their resources? Because you're a special snowflake? Fucking A man this is common sense 101.
 
So there's a discrepancy here: It says on his site that he already has a degree from ASU. In that case, why obsess over a college newspaper when you can aim a little higher? Like a real newspaper.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
Wait he already graduated? I was under the assumption he dropped out after he was kicked off the school paper. Why in the holy fuck would they let you on campus let alone use their resources? Because you're a special snowflake? Fucking A man this is common sense 101.
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He thinks he's entitled to it. You know, like Chris was entitled to play Pokeymon at the Game PLace.

What's so bizarre is that he doesn't seem to recognize that middle-aged people who have already graduated don't go back to live in their old college dorms (he wanted to live in the exact dorm room he lived in as a student, before he learned that dorm was demolished in 2008).
 
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The_Iconoclast said:
And I don't have the patience to deal with big-city mayors like Doomberg and King Willie, even if jobs are better in a larger burg. It'd just be answering to a bigger bully, taking more of my money (they will fine you if you have an unneutered dog in a dog park in Memphis--seriously). I belong in a college environment, but it has to be as much like my alma mater as possible. I need a place I can feel happy and secure to start rebuilding my life.
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Choosing between an abusive family or the inability to buy a large cup of soda. Oh, the dilemma!
 
I think we should help him realize that he's just another freeloader living off the dole. Maybe he should watch some Rachel Maddow sometime and learn himself some facts.

I'll just end my involvement with one Mr. Johnathan Sweet by saying this.

You committed a grave tactical error by coming here. We know exactly who you are. Do you know who any of us are?
 
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Crazy Pacer said:
I'll just end my involvement with one Mr. Johnathan Sweet by saying this.

You committed a grave tactical error by coming here. We know exactly who you are. Do you know who any of us are?
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We're Obamma-lovin' liberals keepin' him outta all that dorm poon & restrictin' his cable ta two channels.
 
The_Iconoclast said:
Oh, my book jacket image from over ten years ago? Yeah...I had a nice job and a sense of freedom then. Of course I looked all right. But then things changed. If Bush was as bad as the Democrats say, tell me why I had two managerial positions in shops during his administration, but since Obama came into office and monkeyed with health care and the economy, no one is asking me on board. Not just new businesses, but stores that have been around for decades are folding. Change has killed Main Street in Small Town, USA. And I don't have the patience to deal with big-city mayors like Doomberg and King Willie, even if jobs are better in a larger burg. It'd just be answering to a bigger bully, taking more of my money (they will fine you if you have an unneutered dog in a dog park in Memphis--seriously). I belong in a college environment, but it has to be as much like my alma mater as possible. I need a place I can feel happy and secure to start rebuilding my life.
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Here are a couple of reasons why you used to have a job and don't now:

1) You were younger and people were more likely to excuse you anti-social tendencies than they are now.

2) You didn't have the massive gaps in you CV that you do now.

3) Because you are lazy. If finding a job requires more effort than posting a cv and an interview you wouldn't even bother.

4) Because Bush and his fellow crony capitalists allowed the banks to go completely insane with money lending. This pushed up the price of housing out of the reach of first time buyers etc. During this period of unfettered dumbassery the economy 'boomed' so there were more jobs and less competition. Now that 'boom' was UNSUSTAINABLE. People were allowed to take out mortgages they could not afford and unmanageable debts were piling up everywhere. This lead to the economy collapsing which Obama was left to deal with*. There are no longer as many jobs to go around you moron.

Also, you don't belong in any educational setting because you are completely incapable of swallowing your pride and admitting you don't know everything. If your mind is closed to new information then you would just be taking up valuable space that could be given to a student willing to learn.

As a female I remember being interested in older guys when I was in college but they were not anything like you. The reason older guys had a chance was because they were educated and interesting or talented. You don't have any of this going on and you don't have money or looks to use instead. You would just be a creeper.

*I don't even like Obama.
 
My beard mocks your feeble attempt at facial hair.
 
Iconoclast, the people here have been very patient with you. More than they really should. You are a man in your late 30s who acts less mature than my 2 year old niece. You have to accept that your college days are over, that the people you hold a grudge against have probably forgotten you existed and are living their lives. You now need to do the same. Look for a job, save the money, and move out of your mother's house. Accept that you are never going to move back into your old dorm, and yes, that college aged girls would outright reject you. You having nothing in common with them.
 
NIA-DOA 2.0 said:
Iconoclast, the people here have been very patient with you. More than they really should. You are a man in your late 30s who acts less mature than my 2 year old niece. You have to accept that your college days are over, that the people you hold a grudge against have probably forgotten you existed and are living their lives. You now need to do the same. Look for a job, save the money, and move out of your mother's house. Accept that you are never going to move back into your old dorm, and yes, that college aged girls would outright reject you. You having nothing in common with them.
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And for god's sake, shave that shit off
 
Iconoclast don't listen to anybody on here, all there trying to do is give you constructive advice on how to improve your life and become a productive member of society. We've got enough people working hard and putting something back into society thats not for you iconoclast your talents lie elsewhere, in the realm of lolcowism. When people come home from a hard day at work they need some escapism or entertainment and see this is were you Iconoclast come into your own. Your natural ability as a lolcow entertains people all over the world whether it be your shit comic or insane ramblings people get to laugh at you. So Iconoclast keep reaching for those stars but not the ones to the left I think they may have a progressive agenda.
 
teheviltwin said:
Here are a couple of reasons why you used to have a job and don't now:
1) You didn't have the massive gaps in you CV that you do now.
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What does my caloric value have to do with anything?

PsychicFish said:
And for god's sake, shave that shit off
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Never. As I said, I look too much like my father, and thanks to my demented psycho ex, I have some issues with his death. That's why I never got a job in food service--they'd make me shave. Besides, I'm not looking for a job--I'm looking for a career. A reputable newspaper would never hire me on with my my bad past, my strong opinions, or my out-of-date computer skills. Shopkeeping would be nice, but nothing big-box--maybe a little store or kiosk in the mall.

Holdek said:
[He] doesn't seem to recognize that middle-aged people who have already graduated don't go back to live in their old college dorms ...
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Uh, hello...have you ever heard of post-graduate work? A lot of students go in for a doctoral program. Some finish their education and get jobs on-campus. Many grad students get on-campus apartments, but a dorm room was just fine for me.

My moment of clarity, you ask, Holly? Well, just two days after I posted that, Captain Stupid was released from jail. He and I got into an argument almost immediately after he walked in here, and I called him a loser. He immediately went outside, took up a rock, and threw it through my bedroom window. After that I realized I may have been hasty writing off a return to school just yet. He never even apologized or paid to have it reglazed-just duct-taped a huge board over the hole. Now because of rain seeping around the board for several years, part of the wall has fallen in. I have to get away from him, but I can't leave my mom alone at the mercy of that psychopath. And the cops are obviously useless. So I'm kind of stuck, unless I can figure out a way to get him committed to an asylum or a group home.

Why did I portray ol' Scooter the way I did? It's symbolic. The guy was a pig. He used women. It's no different than making the faculty advisor a murderess. She did, in effect, kill my mentor's career as retaliation for for advancing mine, which ruined a potentially valuable friendship between us.

Incidentally, I'm 38. Quit trying to make me sound older than I am. I look basically the same as I did at 22, except for the hair. As I said, I just need to get back in shape and see a doctor about my voice, and I'll be all right.
 
The_Iconoclast said:
What does my caloric value have to do with anything?


Never. As I said, I look too much like my father, and thanks to my demented psycho ex, I have some issues with his death. That's why I never got a job in food service--they'd make me shave. Besides, I'm not looking for a job--I'm looking for a career. A reputable newspaper would never hire me on with my my bad past, my strong opinions, or my out-of-date computer skills. Shopkeeping would be nice, but nothing big-box--maybe a little store or kiosk in the mall.


Uh, hello...have you ever heard of post-graduate work? A lot of students go in for a doctoral program. Some finish their education and get jobs on-campus. Many grad students get on-campus apartments, but a dorm room was just fine for me.

My moment of clarity, you ask, Holly? Well, just two days after I posted that, Captain Stupid was released from jail. He and I got into an argument almost immediately after he walked in here, and I called him a loser. He immediately went outside, took up a rock, and threw it through my bedroom window. After that I realized I may have been hasty writing off a return to school just yet. He never even apologized or paid to have it reglazed-just duct-taped a huge board over the hole. Now because of rain seeping around the board for several years, part of the wall has fallen in. I have to get away from him, but I can't leave my mom alone at the mercy of that psychopath. And the cops are obviously useless. So I'm kind of stuck, unless I can figure out a way to get him committed to an asylum or a group home.

Why did I portray ol' Scooter the way I did? It's symbolic. The guy was a pig. He used women. It's no different than making the faculty advisor a murderess. She did, in effect, kill my mentor's career as retaliation for for advancing mine, which ruined a potentially valuable friendship between us.

Incidentally, I'm 38. Quit trying to make me sound older than I am. I look basically the same as I did at 22, except for the hair. As I said, I just need to get back in shape and see a doctor about my voice, and I'll be all right.
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